- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Heartbeats
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- Nov 07, 2020
We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
- Elephant
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
- Driving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.
- Dawn
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.
- Liar
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been anti-women.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020